$2.7 billion: Net increase (7.1 percent) in hospital revenues for 2015, much of it from newly covered patients

9.7 million: Number of residents who benefited from some part of the law

Interestingly, the hospitals in Southeastern Pennsylvania that benefited the most from the ACA – a combination of less bad debt and more patient revenue – were mainly not those typically thought of as safety net hospitals. They were specialty facilities, like Barix Clinics in Bucks County (net patient revenue up 10.7 percent from fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2015), Physicians Care Surgical Hospital in Montgomery County (up 27.2 percent), and Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia (up 37.3 percent).